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japan's capital faces a state of emergency after reporting a record rise in corona virus cases for the 3rd day and how a ban crops levanon is struggling to keep its children from going hungry. police in hong kong are demanding the arrests of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile they include former british consulate workers simon chang he says he was tortured by chinese agents to give information about anti-government protests also on the wanted list this prominent opposition figure nathan law if led to london in fear of persecution under the new national security law imposed by china it sought to be the 1st time police have using new legislation to target activists outside of the territory they go palin is in hong kong she says beijing is cementing its position on the law. from the start china had asserted that hong kong unrest

dissent was also a mentored from abroad it was jus to foreign interference so this is china underlining that fact the national security law was they say was implemented to quell unrest and the protests that we saw in hong kong and so once again they're using the extent of this national security law to underline the fact that implementing it is now making hong kong a more stable place one of the main tenets of that national security laws that there are no boundaries anyone anywhere along resident or not can fall under that or violates it and have and be punished so once again the authorities are exercising that so they're sending very a lot of messages by accent are seeking the arrests of these activists abroad the analysts also say this is he had several goals of china one of the main things china is trying to do at the moment is keep up its nationalistic supports and one

of the best ways to do that is to tighten control over hong kong especially grassroots support which is so it's tightening its grip over the territory to ferment of more nationalistic fervor support and also on top of that it's a sending a message to these other countries saying that despite the fact that these countries are weighing in criticizing the implementation of the national security law in hong kong china will not be bullied samuel chu is a u.s. citizen and he's one of the activists wanted by hong kong police he told al jazeera that china's government is acting like a dictatorship that wants to stamp out all forms of opposition. i think that i was outrage and really not surprised but this is such an outlandish claim that somehow they have jurisdiction an american citizen lobbying an american government is just completely out of line i think i'm not the only person who's out ritually

up spoken to a number of congressional offices and i as i said from the very beginning when the law what if they're going to come after me they must love marched down to capitol hill and the rest speaker pelosi said senator rubio said and everybody in the white house because they too have been under this all articles you know that it is using to charge people like me. secession and colluding with foreign powers and that i think is what they're both not understanding is that they're creating really a perception of how desperate and house they are global international influence and pressure i think that this is what dictators do one day know that they have lost the hearts and minds of their people they go out and disqualify opposition leaders who they issue or and address before decisions and they delay any sort of

democratic practices and process in elections because they want to saw what is with the production and i think that they might be able to lead us who are here but all of that are really doing is growing their movement and reinforcing the commitment all of us have that will once again be a free so one day. donald trump is vying to use his presidential powers to buy the chinese own social media platform take time trum the u.s. is signaled he didn't support an american takeover of the company amid reports microsoft is in talks to buy tick tock and then he see the reports. it's still latest rift in the escalating tech war between the u.s. and china for weeks u.s. officials have raised security concerns over the chinese owned video to talk saying it can help beijing spy on americans and now president donald trump threatened to fan it all together well look here that we may be bending we may be doing some

other things of options but a lot of things are happening so we'll see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to. trump stepped up his rhetoric following reports that he may sign an order forcing chinese parent company might dance to sell the u.s. portion of take talk microsoft was set to be in talks to acquire it but neither side confirmed any deal in a blog post earlier this week took talks chief kevin mayer says his company is not being treated fairly he says it's receiving more scrutiny because of its chinese origins and insists it is not the enemy talks estimated to have 800000000 active users worldwide a 10th of them in the u.s. experts say banning it would be challenging i think it's very unclear what it would look like and what it would mean you know it's very hard to ban something that's popular among the u.s just you know if your parents tell you not to do something it

makes you want to do it more in june a video that went viral on ticked off was seen as one of the reasons behind the poor attendance at trump's campaign rally in tulsa oklahoma forcing a wildly popular app off the smartphones of millions of americans could prove to be an unpopular move ahead of trump's reelection bid and they sue. prosecutors in the u.s. and britain have charged 3 people including a teenage boy with hacking twitter they're accused of taking over the accounts of several high profile people such as former u.s. president barack obama and tesla boss on musk then they allegedly tweeted a bit coin crap cryptocurrency scam which raised more than $100000.00 in a day and a gallagher has details from miami in florida where 2 of the suspects are from in terms of cyber crimes this one was pretty or day they hiked into about 34 accounts

including as he said people like jeff bezos people like kim carr daschle and the former president barack obama joe biden the list really reads like a who's who now how they did it was shows you a measure of just how sophisticated this was they phone finished members of staff who work at twitter managing to get the tools unwittingly from members of staff at twitter to then just hack into those accounts they then used each account to put out what looked like a charitable message saying if you send me whatever amount i pledge i will you know whatever amount you pledge i will double it and essentially using the big corn accounts belonging to these 3 people to line their own pockets the 17 year old who was arrested here in florida on friday is said to be the mastermind behind this he's only 17 so we can't name him for legal reasons but he only just graduated from high school here so this is a sophisticated hack on a level on a scale that hasn't really been seen before and prosecutors are now charging the

3017 year old with 30 felony charges. and out of world news iraq's prime minister has announced a general election next june which will be a year earlier than scheduled cademy the prime minister promised an early vote when he took office in may months of anti-government demonstrations demanded early elections protesters want a government overhaul and an end to corruption and sectarianism or less speak to ray not months or about this he's in london and he's the director of the iraq initiative at the think fat think tank chatham house thank you so much for being with us tonight this was a key demand of anti-government protesters you think this announcement of early elections will appease them will it help me gain more public support. well most of the media as you know have not even been having a support 100 days yet he came in promising reform and a whole host if you look at his government of a whole host of different types of reform he didn't really talk as much about

elections or early elections as you were trying to fight corruption and those bigger demands but i think it's been a very rocky sort of premiership for him so far in his time he has seen assassinations increase for example in show mcclatchy news assassination a few weeks ago then last monday. square in both the protests that you know his forces shot at protesters and people report that steers so very clearly his bigger ambition for reform his bigger ambition to try and within the 2 years that he had to try to do something different was not working and i think miss kind of was his fall back option to some extent ok i need the public you need he's trying to gather public support by going into what has been there may be a metaphor not beginning and he lections but when the elections by themselves be enough to address people's concerns about iraq's political system. this system is rotten and many iraqis know that. if you look at the last elections when the 18th

water turnout was lowest ever since 2003. although there's a discrepancy isn't in you know the voter turnout of some say was even lower than 20 percent. so iraqis aren't going to go out and vote it's the same all political parties same a political leader is trying to use their poaching internet works to try and buy off the votes as they did have been doing since 2003 big key to this isn't just early elections but electoral reform now the parliament is working on an electoral reform law but it's been a bit of a joke because nobody has seen it there hasn't been real scrutiny of it and now the question will be if iraq is on the right path where i would be looking out for is that electoral reform law and whether it does kind of move away from the kind of political party control that has dominated iraq since 2003 right so it's not just about when the elections will happen but also about how do you think the competing

political factions will be able to agree on the new election law and when there is an election can the let's full commission be trusted to ensure that the vote is fat . no i know that the electoral commission to consider 2nd question is it politicized this is a political problem not you know whether iraq doesn't have a good to sherry but independent can provide legal advice to the political parties that's sort of in the most powerful positions are the most vocal position there is no law there is no chief justice who can act independently and so even when it comes to this matter of the electoral reform law certain parties that will benefit from it are pushing it but other parties that will not benefit from it are saying we don't want reform and that's one of the reasons why although it was announced late last year that there's going to be a law and it's been written and nobody has seen it i mean nobody republicans have been able to scrutinize it many senior political officials in the legal system is

still unaware of what exactly the law is so to answer your question again going back to that short answer it is highly unlikely that there's going to be adequate electoral reform lot that could really meet some of the basic sort of the demands of protesters in iraq so the crisis and this is the crisis it would say missed off from over thank you so much for talking to us for not months or director of the iraq initiative at chatham house live there from london thank you for your time still ahead on al-jazeera cellists president receives a frosty reception during his state of the nation address following months of political crisis and accused of spreading lies and cover on advise why a south korean turns leader is being blamed for spiking tests.

alice's chance is full of cloud it's been very wet recently the circulation always shows up there and it's still there for another day to get to sunday when it's disperses the rain is at its heaviest in north vietnam and spring dances moron's in the south china sea given that's where all the action is that does mean things are a little quieter to the south much of borneo is dry sumatran java also fairly dry something thailand is not being were equally getting rather an increase in the monsoon all right and there's a lot of showers from the philippines science woods to west papua and so the wasted not existing condition by the time we get to monday but the rain is dispersed through the south china sea still wet in places but nothing like it is the moment in australia and interesting developments take place around personal moment you just see what looks like a passing cold from nothing much more is developing circulation taking place here

west australia. for the rest is quite a few showers in the tropical part of queensland is dry around sydney for the wet in new zealand admittedly but focused more on perth and you see a circulation developing which is slow to move and even brings some hail showers with us on monday. i'm counting the cost the wealth of banks prime minister as a priority because built on the backs of slaves how much does britain know about french an album pandemic could wipe out latin america's all those social and economic gains plus why i called this in billions counting the cost of al-jazeera we need to stand the differences on the semantics of cultures across the world so no matter what you see we include the news and current affairs that matter to you.

world. the end. of the welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera this hour police in hong kong are demanding the arrests of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile it's the 1st time police have targeted activists outside the territory under the new national security law imposed by china donald trump is vowing to use his presidential powers to ban the chinese own social media platform ticked off from the u.s. and the president is against microsoft's recorded takeover attempt of tectonics u.s. operations and prosecutors in the u.s. and britain have charged 3 people including a teenage boy with hiking twitter they allegedly took over the accounts of high

profile people such as former u.s. president barack obama and test abbas iran mosque in it bitcoin scam. budget plans capital has confirmed a record 472 coronavirus cases on saturday tokyo's governesses is considering a state of emergency in our region meanwhile has declared its own 2 week state of emergency after a spike in cases there a record 71 new infections were reported on 5 day the majority of cases on the southern islands of american troops stationed at the bottom line is that our procedures for u.s. forces are stringent they are effect and what we have seen a growth in cases in a couple of our bases of the manage they have been contained and there has been absolutely no connection to that has been proven to show that there has been any spread from the costers on the base and to the local community early i spoke to michael paine who's the president of the news agency about what's called the surge

in cases. the rise in cope with making cases across the country has been kind of steady for some weeks and it just hasn't and that trend upward trend has just continued on and on and now we're getting into more crisis levels in the case of open now as specifically the there is concern that perhaps the reason why it's hitting that island particularly strongly is because u.s. forces particularly the u.s. marines have been able to come in and out of japan without going through immigration controls and until very recently without any covert 1000 tests under the status of forces agreement but this link is strongly suspected by both the local government and the residents and now they're going to have to go into a more sort of a soft lockdown scenario in that creek which are. as you said has so far escaped

the voice of the epidemic the number of cases is on the rise new restrictions coming into effect tell me now how is that going to affect people there and what's that to the spike in cases right well as i said as for the spike it's really been coming steadily so it isn't you know it isn't one thing it is sort of something which has been spiraling slowly out of control over weeks and weeks and what one key thing to understand is that the national government has opposed any sort of lockdown or any sort of restrictions on people's movements to even promoted a national tourism campaign in the midst of the pandemic so what you have going on here is a lot of local governors including governor yuriko toy quite kate of tokyo who are essentially acting against the will of the national government which doesn't want any sort of restrictions at all. russia's health minister says mass coronavirus vaccinations could begin in october but it's not clear if the treatment produces an

immune response critics are concerned that russia is racing ahead with it because scientists are under pressure from the kremlin while america's leading infectious disease expert says he's cautiously optimistic a corona virus vaccine will be produced by early next year dr anthony foxx he was questioned by a congressional committee as from politicians remain divided about the reopening of schools and businesses while infections are spreading my cannery force from washington the test from the outset it was clear that the hearing would reflect the country's bitter political divide the democratic chair outlining what was supposed to be the prime intention today i'm calling for the administration to finally give america a comprehensive national plan their prior times the science over politics the ranking republican member waving reams of paper contended that

president trump did in fact have a national plan let me thank you on behalf of the millions of american people who are alive today that wouldn't be alive if you weren't carrying out president trump's effective plan to keep americans safe as we learned about this virus as we work to get a cure for this virus a picture of the president placed behind him to emphasize on whose behalf he was speaking the chair also produced his own prop a graph showing the dramatic discrepancy between the rates of infection in the united states and in europe the president immediately tweeting a response in real time including a gratuitous insult. somebody please tell congressman cliburn who doesn't have a clue that the chart he put up indicating more cases for the u.s. than europe is because we do much more testing than any other country in the world if we had no testing or bad testing he continues we would show there are the few

cases doctor said the early opening of many states was one reason along with the differences in the initial response if you look at what happened in europe when they shut down or lock down or went to shelter in place however you want to describe it they really did it to the tune of about 95 plus percent of the country did that when you actually look at what we did even though we shut down even though it created a great deal of difficulty we really functionally shut down only about 50 percent in the sense of the totality of the country your system secretary of health confirmed there was a disturbing legging getting test results saying it was taking on average 3 to 5 days and in a few cases up to 15 and the director of the centers for disease control stated he had not been consulted in the administration's decision to shift the focus of data collection from the c.d.c.

to the health department in washington the centers for disease control has been the focal point in the fight against every previous pandemic the fact that the director was cut out of the loop in this crucial decision is yet another example of the degree to which the administration has sidelined the c.d.c. in the fight against this virus. ultimately a hearing that was designed to formulate a national strategy revealed instead how bitter partisanship complicates any unified response to be as yet uncontrolled spread of the virus. mike al-jazeera washington. chile's president has announced a 4 and a half 1000000000 dollar bonus for the economy to help soften the blow of the pandemic sebastian pinera made the announcement during his state of the nation address a lot of america tennessee and human reports from santiago. everything about this year's state of the nation address was

a normal starting with the fact that it was delivered more than 2 months late because of the pandemic the president's problems began much earlier. these last 9 months have been very difficult and demanding for everyone and they have been very extraordinarily difficult for me. but like many chileans not in the past and was taken aback that he barely mentioned one of the most important reasons 9 months ago a nationwide social uprising brought millions of chileans out onto the streets to demand profound reforms protests vandalism and rage fanned by police brutality seemed unstoppable. instead the president focused on efforts to confront the pandemic and to help the poor and middle class write out a steep economic recession i don't know dana says she hasn't received a cent even though she's been out of work since april when i heard him speak i

cannot trust a word he says he has lied to so much and will miss the things he should be talking about right i don't believe what he's promising now. others were listening at all. in this middle class neighborhood resident or even waving the president. already banging on one. show their discontent. here we are hearing reports that another part of town in low income neighborhoods the demonstrations of just pretend to be having a hard more violent. appealed for understanding. i want to tell those families who are still waiting for help to arrive that we'll do everything in our power to correct our mistakes finally i want to tell you that a house divided cannot prevail. had been hoping to hear the presidential more humility even as his leadership is questioned even by some members of his own

conservative coalition will clearly disappointed to see in human al-jazeera. the leader of a south korean church has been arrested accused of concealing and under reporting coronavirus cases prosecutors say leaman he hampered the government's anti-virus response. denies the accusations and says he cooperated with the health department more than a 3rd of south korea's infections have been linked to his church rob mcbride reports some city in south korea's north young son province it was by far the most serious outbreak dating back to very nearly the beginning of the epidemic in february and march here in south korea accounting for more than a 3rd of the country's $14000.00 plus cases mainly in the southeastern city of daegu but also in they bring provinces such as here north sand the church says it has hundreds of thousands of members but is regarded by mainstream religions as

being more of a sect it's alleged that it held on to some of the lists of its members making the process of tracing and testing some of its congregants all the more difficult and in fact some of its offices were raided by the authorities but from the start it's leader liam and he and other church leaders have claimed their innocence saying that they have been cooperating with the ortho or tease throughout a spokes person saying that the truth will come out in court. to lebanon now where international aid agencies say a rising number of families are losing their income and sinking into poverty save the children says half a 1000000 young says are going hungry and that's just in beirut is aging the government to help the vulnerable zana hard every port. in this middle class neighborhood in the heart of the lebanese capital stories of poverty are everywhere households have been pushed into desperation i'm

a liberal him like so many other families is a victim of the rapidly imploding economy she says it has been hard on her 11 year old son hamza who's had to adapt to a new lifestyle. we're borrowing money to feed our children for 5 months short on house rent my husband isn't working a family will die from hunger if the situation continues. children are already hungry more than half a 1000000 of them in the greater beirut area according to the charity save the children poverty is a real thing some children currently go to bed hungry the negative coping mechanisms for the time being are able to kind of fill some of these gaps but on the long run if there's no micro level and sustainable solution there will be. already half the country lives in poverty here in the northern city of tripoli families struggle with soaring food prices due to the local currency losing 80

percent of its value. children are being deprived from buying what they want people are under so much oppression of. decades of corruption and mismanagement are blamed for running the economy into the ground and political leaders don't seem to have a solution. non-governmental organizations say $80000.00 people have lost their jobs in recent months bringing the total number of unemployed to $430000.00 or 32 percent of the workforce many warn up to $1000000.00 out of the $5000000.00 lebanese population could be jobless by the end of the year. the world food program says 2 thirds of households in lebanon have lost their income and some have started to sell whatever they can to survive about governor of the already sold serving room or some other belongings to buy food and water the commode commit

a year many people are in debt and depend on charity but those who were able to help now need help themselves yes there are no lives being lost as and typical natural disaster or a typical war but lebanese people that live in lebanon by the syrian refugees parts the hands of those they all are falling off the cliff so you have lives at risk aid agencies are already calling it a humanitarian crisis as lives continue to be destroyed by lebanon's financial meltdown. beirut. where again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera police in hong kong are demanding the arrest of 6 pro-democracy activists living in exile it's not to be the 1st time police have used the new national security law imposed by china

to target activists outside the territory did it upon and has more from hong kong from the start china had asserted that hong kong unrest dissent was all for mentored from abroad it was due to foreign interference so this is china underlining that fact the national security law was they say was implemented to quell unrest and the protests that we saw in hong kong and so once again they're using the extent of this national security law to underline the fact that implementing it is now making hong kong a more stable place. donald trump is vowing to use his presidential powers to ban the chinese own social media platform take time from the u.s. and the president is against microsoft's reported takeover attempt to take talks u.s. operations a teenage boy is among 3 people who've been charged with hacking twitter that they allegedly took over the accounts of high profile figures such as former u.s. president barack obama and tesla boss eat on mosque in

a bit coin scow russia's health minister says moscow in a virus vaccinations could begin in october but it's not clear if the treatment produces an immune response critics are concerned that russia is racing ahead with its vaccine because scientists under pressure from the kremlin japan's capital has confirmed a record 472 corona virus cases tokyo's governesses is considering a state of emergency in our region declared its own 2 week state of emergency a record 71 new infections were reported on fidei the majority of the cases are of american troops stationed on the islands and iraq's prime minister has announced a general election next june which will be a year earlier than scheduled will soften any promise an early vote when he took office in may months of anti-government demonstrations demanded early elections those are the headlines on al-jazeera more news after counting the costs. 15 years

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